I am trying to write an article in a magazine about Japan and its legal system

[reelreel313]

Hello everyone, I am trying to write an article about Japan and its legal systems, is there anyone here from japan or america or anywhere that can help? I really wanna know what someone who has experienced japan has to say about these certain topics...

1)innocence until proven guilty in a court of law
2)opportunity makes a thief(the belief that a thief is made by opportunity if the opportunity presents itself...)
3)an eye for an eye ( something happens to you, it must happen back to them)
4) belief that the world is just...

THANK YOU PLEASE HELP!!!

[nice gaijin]

There's quite a bit of cynical stuff floating around about the Japanese justice system. I'm afraid I don't know it well enough to comment, but I'd just like to say that if the world were just, we wouldn't need a justice system.

[reelreel313]

Thank you, yes from what ive read all i really know is somehow it is believed that the world is not just, like the western idea, but that balance will be achieved eventually, am i somehow in the right track?

[nice gaijin]

I think that in order to explain how that balance gets achieved, some belief structures incorporate things like karma and reincarnation, IMO partially because so many people don't get brought to justice in their own lifetime. Equilibrium is the natural state of things, but in the small picture of human affairs, I think it is not.

Of course, this is all rather philosophical, and not in particular pertaining to the Japanese justice system.